This book brings together scholars from economic and political science to study the interactions within the European Union from a strategic or rational choice perspective. The contributors seek to understand the relationship between member states and competing European institutions. The book focuses on the horizontal checks and balances including the countervailing forces of legislative, regulatory, bureaucratic, and constitutional decision-making. Other examinations analyze the vertical structures, in particular the impact of the federal distributions of power on policy choices
This book brings together scholars from economic and political science to study the interactions within the European Union from a strategic or rationa...
This volume explores the theoretical value of applying rational choice theory to questions of regional integration. As with other questions of conflict and cooperation in the field of international politics, studies of European integration are divided largely between the realist and liberalist perspectives. Yet neither of these schools of thought aptly explains the dynamics characterizing this process, that is, the major advances in regional integration and the long periods of paralysis. The contributions in this volume work their way from the most general questions and macro-processes...
This volume explores the theoretical value of applying rational choice theory to questions of regional integration. As with other questions of conf...
I am sorry." So lautete die Entschuldigung, die der britische Derivatehandler Nick Leeson bei seiner Flucht aus Singapur in Richtung Kota Kinabalu im F- ruar 1995 hinterliess, nachdem er durch Fehlspekulationen innerhalb weniger Wochen einen Schuldenberg von 825 Millionen Pfund Sterling aufgehauft hatte. Die falsche Einschatzung der Kursentwicklung gepaart mit blinder Risikobere- schaft fuhrte Leeson fur mehrere Jahre ins Gefangnis, trieb seine Arbeitgeberin, die uber 250 Jahre alte Barings Bank, in den Konkurs und loste eine mehrmo- tige Krise der internationalen Finanz- und Devisenmarkte...
I am sorry." So lautete die Entschuldigung, die der britische Derivatehandler Nick Leeson bei seiner Flucht aus Singapur in Richtung Kota Kinabalu im ...